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Nature 405, 725 (15 June 2000) | doi:10.1038/35015765

UK researchers call for limits on animal experiment 'red tape'

Natasha Loder

More than 100 leading UK medical researchers have written to British science minister David Sainsbury to ask for an end to what they claim are excessive delays and red tape involved in regulating animal experimentation.The researchers, who include five winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine and 38 Fellows of the Royal Society, say they are worried that Britain could lose its leading position in biomedical science.